EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has revealed a first image for Vincent Maël Cardona’s tense behind-closed-doors thriller No One Will Know as it launches sales on the title at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris this week.
The huis close follows the clients and bar staff of a shabby cafe outside Paris in the early hours of the morning, who enter into a deadly pact when an elderly regular comes in and wins €294 million in the lottery.
Cardona has gathered a high-profile ensemble cast featuring Pio Marmaï (The Three Musketeers duology and The Ties That Bind Us), Sofiane Zermani (Hunting With Tigers), Panayotis Pascot (Loup Garous), Lucie Zhang (Paris, 13th District) and Joseph Olivennes (Magnetic Beats).
They are joined by Pulp Fiction star Maria de Meideros as the bar’s tough-talking, streetwise, eccentric landlady who stumbles in on the dangerous plan, which ultimately send all the participants on a bloody downward spiral.
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The movie is Cardona’s second feature after well-received debut Magnetic Beats set against the backdrop of the 1980s radio pirate station scene in Brittany, which premiered in Cannes Directors Fortnight to acclaim in 2021.
The $6.8M (€6.7M) movie is by produced Easy Tiger, the company behind Houda Benyamina’s Netflix breakout Divines and her upcoming female three musketeers tale All For One; Srab Fims (Les Misérables, Saint Omer) and Studiocanal.
Studiocanal revealed a fast-paced trailer for the feature at an event at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris on Thursday evening.
The studio has hopes of a festival debut in the vein of Gilles Lellouche’s unconventional romance Beating Hearts (L’Amour Ouf) starring François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos, which it also launched at the Unifrance RDV last year.
That film went on to premiere at Cannes and has since drawn five million spectators home, ahead of an international roll-out from now onwards.
Thursday’s presentation followed a strong year for the company topped by Gilles de Maistre’s Autumn and the Black Jaguar, which it said had grossed roughly $30M internationally and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Most Precious Of Cargoes, which drew 550,000 spectators at home and is currently in the midst of its international release campaign.
The event also showcased trailers for Cédric Klapisch’s Colours of Time, in which a group of contemporary distant cousins are brought together in their quest to understand more about the life of a forgotten female ancestor who lived an intriguing life in the bustling Paris of 1895, intertwined with the birth of photography and the birth of Impressionism.
Other highlights included a high-octane teaser for female-led action thriller Coka Chica, about three best friends from the Paris suburbs who find themselves on the wrong side of the law and a ruthless drugs ring during a trip to the Caribbean.
In the backdrop, Studiocanal’s domestic distribution arm is gearing up to release 12 French productions in cinemas in France this year which include Mourad’s Love Is Overrated, Ali Bougheraba‘s Off To India and Cédric Jimenez’s high-end, big budget sci-fi Chien 51 scheduled for the end of the year.
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